Outlook Social Connector Announcement

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Back in October I told you about the launch of our Outlook Social Connector product, which gives Outlook the ability to aggregate all your social
communication into one place. Here, Dev stops back by the studio to tell us about the latest announcement: the availability of the LinkedIn connector and new Outlook integration with Facebook and MySpace.

With LinkedIn you'll be able to see the statuses and photos of colleagues, and any changes they make to their contact information will be synced to Outlook so it's always current. You can also add new people to LinkedIn right from Outlook. You can get started
by downloading the
Office 2010 Beta, then downloading
Outlook Social Connector, and then heading over to LinkedIn to download
this connector.

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Same problem, what a shame. This will be a pretty damn sweet feature though. A lot of people do not post their phone number online, so I hope we can edit the contact to add the additional info we know. Hopefully that does not get overridden. It could get
kinda messy, but in theory this sounds great.

I can imagine this with Windows Mobile 7, if someone changes phone numbers, hopefully it'd update automatically and one would never know....but having to sync with outlook, that is kinda lame. Can't this be done over the air?

The fact that this works for no one here indicates to me this is sub beta quality. I expect betas to actually install and have bugs, not for the bugs to involve getting the product working in the first place.

There is stated that you first need to disable the current Outlook Social Connector deliverd with the Office 2010 Beta. When this option is disabled then you are ready to install the OSC.MSI and after that the Linkedinoutlookconnecter.exe. Following this
made it work for me.

Last couple of days my techs and myself have tried installing on several systems, all fail...

Outlook flat out crashes when the social connector is installed, and the LinkedIn does not work with the 2010 shipping connector.

Sadly, the standard 'uninstall' from the control panel does not work, as it leaves the two 'socialconnector' dlls in the Office14 folder.

This needs to be addressed before a lot of non-tech users try this on, as it is not an isolated problem. As I said, we tried this with several configurations (only 32bit, etc, etc, as the sites state). I assume MS has some peeps on this, as I told my techs
to not take time to debug it out and find the problem.

First, uninstall the LinkedIn connector and OSC if you installed them already. Then, right click the Office 2010 entry in Programs and Features and select 'Change'. When the dialog appears, make sure that 'Add or Remove Features' is selected and click 'Continue'.
Expand Microsoft Office Outlook and then Outlook Add-Ins and choose 'Not Available' for Outlook Social Connector. Click Continue, wait for it to finish, and then install OSC and the LinkedIn connector.

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